Book Title: Jainism Eternal and Universal Path for Enlightenment
Author(s): Narendra Bhandari
Publisher: Research Institute of Scientific Secrets from Indian Oriental Scriptures Ahmedabad
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scientific concepts are correct since they are based on observations, and even admitting that some of them may be partly incomplete and subject to further modification, as more observations are made and theories are perfected, it is hard to find an agreement between many Jain and scientific concepts.
Surely there are areas of serious disagreement between Jain description related to geography and astronomy, units of time and space and the modern observations, an area in which science has made tremendous progress. They can not be reconciled and obviously Jain concepts need to be corrected in light of modern scientific findings. Some of them are mentioned in Appendix-1.
